Does the Earth
- Does the Earth
Does the Earth grow bigger as the strata suggests? Does it weigh more? Are the calculations of the revolutions correct, still? And how we measure time—I consider it.
If the Earth grows, I know it is because life continues. We bear ourselves from next to nothing. How is energy conserved?What is the stem cell?
What is the ear on the rat’s back? What newness to be dust and compressed and colored for the Earth and to restbeside me?
I know us to be the Self. The stem cell is the Other.As Tolstoy’s Levin found goodness,I find it. [End Page 211] [End Page 212]
Sarah Blake lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and son. Her first book, Mr. West, is an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West and will be out in spring 2015 from Wesleyan University Press.
